The draft below coincides almost entirely with the text of the resolution on the peasant movement adopted by the congress. (Congress Protocols, 44th session, May 3rd, pp. 270–274.) The changes introduced are indicated in the notes. Point 42 of the document on p. 499 served as preliminary material for the development of this draft.

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* DRAFT RESOLUTION ON RELATIONS WITH THE PEASANT MOVEMENT.
[May 3, 1905]

Considering:

1) that the expanding peasant movement now underway is spontaneous and politically unconscious, yet inevitably turns *) against the existing political 2) order and privileged classes 3);

2) that the task 4) of social-democracy includes support of every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order;

3) that social-democrats must, on the basis of the foregoing, strive to distinguish the revolutionary-democratic features (characteristics) of the peasant movement, to develop them and carry them through to the end 5);

4) that social-democracy, as the party of the proletariat, must in all cases and under all circumstances unfailingly strive toward the independent organization of the rural proletariat and clarification to it of the irreconcilable opposition 6) of its interests and the interests 7) of the peasant bourgeoisie,—

the III Congress of the Russian Social-Democratic Workers' Party [resolves:] entrusts all party organizations:

a) to conduct propaganda among the broadest strata of the proletariat that the social-democratic workers' party 8) sets as its task the most energetic support of the contemporary peasant movement in all its revolutionary manifestations, in no way refraining from such revolutionary measures including up to the confiscation of landlord land 10);

b) as a practical slogan of agitation among the peasantry and as a means of introducing the greatest consciousness, to put forward the plan of immediate formation 12) of revolutionary peasant committees for the purpose of carrying out all revolutionary-democratic transformations in the interests of the peasantry and its deliverance 13) from police and landlord oppression;

c) to recommend to peasants refusal to participate in military service, complete refusal to pay taxes and non-recognition of authorities for the purpose of forcing disorganization of the autocratic government and supporting the revolutionary assault upon it 14);

d) in the peasant committees 15) [the party] strives toward the independent organization of the rural proletariat and toward the closest possible rapprochement of it with the urban proletariat into a single social-democratic workers' party 16).

Comparison of the draft with the resolution adopted by the congress yields the following:

In Lenin's draft:
*) however
2) political
3) and privileged classes
4) task
5) 3) that social-democrats must, on the basis of the foregoing, strive to distinguish the revolutionary-democratic features (characteristics) of the peasant movement, to develop them and carry them through to the end 5)
6) irreconcilable opposition
7) and the interests
8) among the broadest strata of the people, that the social-democratic workers' party

In the resolution adopted:
nevertheless
this word is absent
and against all remnants of serfdom in general
tasks
3) that in virtue of this Social-Democracy must strive to purify the revolutionary-democratic content of the peasant movement from all reactionary admixtures, developing the revolutionary self-consciousness of the peasants and carrying their democratic demands through to completion;
the irreconcilable opposition to the interests
to the broad strata of the people, that Social-Democracy